This is an analysis of the poem Song—will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary? that begins with:
WILL ye go to the Indies, my Mary,
And leave auld Scotia's shore?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc adXd AeAe acXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010110 111101 0110010110 0110101 111011010 1010101 11011010 110101 11110100110 1111010001 111010011 110111 11111110 11111011 11111110 0111101 111011110 010001001 110011111 010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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